Chan jumped out of the car and ran to the guy who had dared to shoot Minho.

He had stripped him lightly by car. Apparently enough to disable him for at least a moment.

With trembling fingers, he picked up the gun, secured it and put it in his waistband.

Just as Chan wanted to turn around and run to Minho, the guy jumped up again and jumped on him.

From then on, there was no stopping Chan. His fist landed in the guy's face and he couldn't help but grin contented when he heard it crack.

Two more specifically placed blows and the guy fell bleeding and unconscious to the ground. Chan had not only turned thumbs in the gym with Changbin.

While Chan had taken care of the creep, Changbin had also jumped out of the car and immediately rushed to Minho.

He writhed on the floor in pain, but thankfully was conscious.

"Min," he whispered shocked.

He had no idea what to do. The blood seeped from the wound in the shoulder and the wound on the leg was only a grazing shot, but still did not look good.

Minutes later, Jisung came running. Quite shaky on his feet and ready to fall at any moment.

Shortly before he reached Minho and Changbin, he fell. But he didn't even bother to get up again. He crawled the last bit towards the two.

Changbin didn't know what shocked him more. Minho shot, or Jisung, who was stoned, choking marks on his neck and bruises on the rest of his upper body. Not to mention what he was wearing.

Chan finally came to them. And suddenly, he was again the leader who had the situation under control.

"Honey, press your hands as hard as you can on the wound on his shoulder! I try to stop the bleeding on my leg and call for reinforcement."

As fast as he could, he took off his button down and pressed it onto the wound on his leg.

Minho moaned when both Chan and Changbin pressed on the wounds to stop the bleeding.

Jisung had managed to crawl to his fiancé and now lay on Minho's side with a tear-covered face.

Minho turned his head to him and tried to hide his pain as much as possible.

"I'm here, baby! Everything will be fine!"

In the meantime, Chan had taken Minho's phone out of his pocket and now called Jimin.

"We need two ambulances! Minho was shot down and his fiancé abused! Minho has two gunshot wounds. Left shoulder, smooth shot and right thigh, grazing shot!"

"Chan- ", Minho tediously tried to straighten up, "inside - at least four hostages- ..."

Exhausted, he let himself sink back and closed his eyes for a moment.

"We need six ambulances!"

While Chan was on the phone, Changbin gently brushed his hair off Minhos face.

"Stay awake Minho...! You have to stay awake! For Ji. For all of us...!"

Tears also ran over his cheeks and he would have liked to lie next to Minho and Jisung.

But he had no choice but to kneel at Minho's head and try to stop the bleeding.

He stroked gently over Minho's cheek again and again and murmured soothing words.

Chan had finished the phone call and finally had time to take care of Minho and Jisung.

"Jimin will be right here. After Minhos reported to him what was going on here, two teams and several ambulances moved out."

With his right hand, he still put pressure on Minho's wound, but with his left he pulled Jisung to himself as careful he could.

The younger one trembled and did not bring a word over his lips.

"We are here. Everything will be fine!"

He gently stroked his back and kissed him on the forehead.

A felt eternity later came the task force. Minho was just so aware that he could report that at least three or four of the sellers had escaped.

But after that, he lost consciousness and was taken to the ambulance by the paramedics as quickly as possible.

Jisung, who had been calmed down before by Minho's presence, received a panic attack and also lost consciousness.

Chan and Changbin held on to each other for a moment. It felt like their world was collapsing and they couldn't do anything about it.

The love that all four felt for each other could not be described in words, but it felt like their hearts would be torn out.

Now Chan could no longer hold back his tears.

"They will both make it..!"

After that, they let go and Chan went to the hospital together with Jisung, while Changbin accompanied Minho.

While Jimin took care of the situation on the ground and made sure that the hostages were taken to the hospital and the criminals ended up in prison.

After the site of the factory had been sealed off and all those still present had been taken away, he combed through the site with his team for the escaped sellers.

Arriving at the hospital, both Minho and Jisung were immediately taken away, while Chan and Changbin were asked to wait in the waiting area.

Minho condition was extremely critical and the doctors could not say anything more about his condition.

Jisung also worried them, as he had not yet regained consciousness.

And again, Chan and Changbin were damned to sit around and wait for news.

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